Produced by Mark C. Orton, Cathy Maxam and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In this plain-text version formatting symbols are used as follows: Underscores indicate _italics_ Double colons indicate ::underlining:: Pages 313-315 in the original text are printed in two columns. For purposes of more accessible display on electronic devices, in this plain-text version of the book, the text from the columns has been placed one following the other instead of side-by-side. Inconsistencies in the author's use of hyphens and accent marks have been left unchanged, as in the original text. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected without comment. One example of a typographical error is on page 144 where the word "miuutes" was corrected to "minutes". In cases other than obvious typographical errors, the author's spelling has been left unchanged from the original text with the following three exceptions: 1. Page 126 the word "worldings" was changed to "worldlings" in the phrase: "... guests are all mere worldlings...." 2. Page 262 the quoted phrase from the original: "Fait vour quelle sera votre votre maturité" was changed to: "Fait voir quelle sera votre maturité" which is the correct wording from the poem "À Théodore de Banville" by Charles Baudelaire. 3. Page 317 the name "Bazil" was changed to "Basil" in the phrase: "... Basil Hallward's studio...." to correspond with the author's other spellings of the name Basil Hallward. Two items in the index, which were out of alphabetical order ("De Profundis--Biblical influence" and "Shaw, G. B.") were placed in correct alphabetical order in this version. OSCAR WILDE ::THIRD EDITION:: THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE WITH A CHAPTER CONTRIBUTED BY THE PRISON WARDER WHO HELD THIS UNHAPPY MAN IN GAOL _Very fully Illustrated and with Photogravure Frontispiece, and a Biography_ By ROBERT HARBOROUGH SHERARD _Demy 8vo, Cloth gilt_ _Also a limited edition de luxe_ [Illustration] OSCAR WILDE, _From a Crayon Portrait by_ S. WRAY. OSCAR WILDE BY LEONARD CRESSWELL INGLEBY LONDON T. WERNER LAURIE NEW YORK MITCHELL KENNERLEY MCMVII CONTENTS PAGE PART I OSCAR WILDE: THE MAN 3 PART II THE MODERN PLAYWRIGHT The Dramatist 95 "Lady Windermere's Fan" 104 "A Woman Of No Importance" 119 "The Ideal Husband" 129 "The Importance Of Being Earnest" 149 PART III